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Dream

10:47am JST Wednesday 25 August 2004

I was friends with Hannibal Lecter, who I couldn't actually distinguish from Anthony Hopkins, and we were in a maze like set of rooms. He was planning on killing someone and I wasn't in on it, but I knew it would happen, and I didn't know that it wouldn't be me, but I presumed it wouldn't. Meara Sullivan came to the window randomly and she was like, "HI," not recognizing him, but recognizing me, but not letting on that we knew each other, and I could tell that Hannibal was sizing her up for dinner, and then I was like, "Meara, do you know Hannibal? He's my friend." and patted him on the head. Hannibal, with his wide eyes focused on me was like, "blahblablah" basically that I had spoiled his chance at dinner, and I was like, "fuck; I'm not sure if you're not going to dine on me." but he softened a bit and didn't kill me.

Good thing, too, cause I wouldn't have been able to have the next dream:

Andrew and I walked around to the back and saw some people coming up from a hiking trip. Moms and daughters in some kind of scout troop thing. There was a scary voodoo woman in a trailer that we didn't want to go visit, and we didn't want to get too close to warn them and she called to the women, "hey come into my trailer" and several of them were like, "waa" and scampered away cause the woman seemed weird and desperate, but then some of them walked through her trailer just out of random choice or curiosity and when she went back to her trailer, she ushered them back inside and quickly put a spell on each of them that made them shut their mouth and close their eyes and some of them spilled out the back of the trailer and she caught some of them in her spell and then

BUhLAMMMMM

and the trailer just flat exploded (or the movie cut to an explosion, it was hard to tell from the plot) and Andrew and I were like fuck and hurried away as quickly as possible. We didn't say anything back at the gymnasium type area that we had been in and where everyone was gathered, but I decided to challenge myself to see if I could climb up this pole and make it along the cable all the way around the room back to this point, just using my arms and not my feet to climb, and keeping in time with the music on the radio. It was really hard, especially considering the poles were not stable, so I had to account for that imbalance and keep myself balanced at the top even though I was making them top heavy. I had this sense that I could do anything and I used that ability to succeed even though I didn't know if I could have other wise. There was a contest announced by Marvin the DJ when I was nearly halfway around that was basically the same thing that I had already started, so other people began to consider climbing the poles, and a woman (I think Laura (ouch I forgot her last name. tall Laura from YRUU)) wanted to climb the pole I was on now, and said something to Steve to see if she should try and ask me to get off or wait or what, and I just didn't worry about her and zoomed up the pole and rolled it along to the next pole and then slid the pole back over to where she was, calling her attention to be ready and get to climb her chosen pole.

I was almost all the way back around when I saw a message on the whitebaord asking if anyone had seen two peole (one with large eyes) who were last seen on the camping trip. I was like, [gulp] and realized I needed to tell someone what I had seen.

I don't remember who I was telling, cross between Steve and Johnny, and before I could formulate the sentence I was woken up.

Lessons

4:01pm JST Wednesday 25 August 2004

Lesson with Sanami happened today. Vacations plus her mom forgetting meant we haven't met in a few weeks.

After the lesson I rocked out to the next place and as I was 30 seconds away, with 1 minute until lesson, she called and cancelled.

Blah.

Deposited 100,000 yen in my savings account (just over 200,000 now) and I'm about to pay rent and then go look at bikes. Awrigh.

Shopping for my new bike

4:28pm JST Wednesday 25 August 2004

Yay. I brought my camera.

On the train now with 80,000 yen in my pocket that is slated for food and fun and misc during the upcoming month.

But I'm on my way to a bike shop in Jiyugaoka.

There's a part of my brain that is so excited about getting a bike that, given the right conditions, could prompt me to buy a bike today. Eeee.

I trust that what's best for my biking in the long term will continue its manifestation.

5:03pm

I seemed to be in the right area, but I didn't seem to find the bike shop Riki told me about. I walked indirectly from Jiyugaoka to Toritsugaidagaku.

Now I'm on the train to Naka-meguro where I intend to find the bike shop Hitomi told me about.

5:47pm

Arrived in Nakameguro, headed out toward where I thought the shop was, and quickly determined that the simple map in my head was insufficient for me to find the bike shop. I knew there was a river involved, so I found the river and walked along it in the direction my brain indicated. After a while of walking, I decided that the shop must not be directly alongside the river. However, there were many apartments alongside the river, so I figured I would be able to smurf some free internet bandwidth for a moment. Walked along the river with my computer open, watching with iStumbler, a shareware (freeware?) thing that snoops for internet signals.

Found a few weak ones before I was able to find a strong one that didn't require a password. It didn't take really long; woulda been faster to start looking for an internet signal before I just set out. But anyway, I acquired a map and it was all good.

I walked a block to the street on which the bike shop was located and determined that I had walked well past the shop. Walked back toward the station; the shop was three traffic lights from the station, and traffic lights were pretty frequent.

Aha. After a while, bang I found the shop. I recognized the front of the shop from their picture online. It was smaller than I expected.

Also, it was closed.

- - - -

I checked my phone (time and date) about a hundred times to verify I had arrived within

Mon - Sat 11:00 - 19:00
Sun 11:00 - 17:00

I tried to read the other signs and the note that had been taped outside the door. I was hopeless with the kanji, of which there was plenty.

It took me some minutes of deciphering and searching before I found "every Wendnesdays close."

They can't spell it, but they can take it off.